Chapter 184: In place
In the 80s, Rolls-Royce was no longer in the seventies, the so-called RB-211, the RB-211, the 70s because of this engine went bankrupt and was nationalized, but once the engine was developed, all the upfront investment brought high returns.
The 83-year-old Rolls-Royce has not yet been privatized again, but the demand for rapid external development is unstoppable, compared with the two giants of Pratt & Whitney and General Motors, Rolls-Royce has more advantages in civilian engines, but it is difficult to compare with the military.
Look at the other giants at this time in the military business, first of all, Pratt & Whitney, the powerful F-100 engine established its military high-thrust turbofan dominance, and the military medium push grabbed the power system of the Israeli LAVI project, not to mention a series of other fragmented businesses.
General Motors is also awesome, the F-110 engine is clearly going to fight with Pratt & Whitney, and there are still some highlights in the field of third-generation military pusher turbofans in the entire world.
Not to mention the F-404, the U.S. Navy's F-18 series procurement needs are a lot, as well as Northrop's F-20 fighter project, and even won the Swedish JAS-39 project power bid.
Even the Snecma company, which has always been not favored by Rolls-Royce and can only belong to the second echelon, has also secretly communicated with Yugoslavia for the M-88 engine under development, and although Rolloe has always had a good relationship with Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia's light fighter project has generally chosen to cooperate with Dassault, and the results of engine selection have been relatively clear.
It is also a medium-push turbofan, and it is also competing in the international market for the power of light military fighters in the 80s, Pratt & Whitney has already won orders from Israel; GM has won orders from Sweden; even Snecma is very likely to get orders from Yugoslavia; now, what achievements can Rolls-Royce show?
This is obviously a question worth pondering, the reason why the entire international light fighters were piled up in the 80s was naturally not groundless, and it cannot be said that a group of countries were convulsing, right?
The main reason for this is that small and medium-sized countries at this time are optimistic about ultralight fighters, nothing more.
As a first-line defense contractor in the United Kingdom, Rolls-Royce is naturally very aware of this situation, but it is a pity that the United Kingdom at this time does not have any single-push light fighter program, in order to be able to take a share of the international light fighter market in the next two decades, it is not surprising that Rolls-Royce is willing to participate in the competition in person.
You GM, Pratt & Whitney, and Snecma are all relying on their own strength to grab the bid for the power system of light fighters, no problem, my surname Luo is Ganbai.
But this time, labor and management have to go down in person, directly participate in the overall investment of the light fighter project, and determine the engine model in the first time, which is no problem!
Anyway, the current Rolls-Royce company relies on the gold-absorbing ability of the RB-211 series engine, and has already achieved full recovery, with a lot of funds in hand ready to invest, and then look at the strength of the 123 factory, and it has also cooperated with the United Kingdom, potential stocks!
From the perspective of various circumstances, there is really no choice for the 123 factory, especially the traditional export market of others, as long as the project is made, it is a steady profit, so Luo Luo has always been greedy for the 123 factory.
Well, now, the latest news is that not only does Factory 123 have various export markets that urgently need fighters, but also hundreds or thousands of large orders within the military of the Republic.
The death penalty is not lost, and three years of blood are earned!
Rolls-Royce was very practical, and at the beginning he was optimistic about the potential of light fighters in the international market, so it made sense to strive to be able to sell his own engines and slowly develop into the current kind of personal entry.
If you really want to talk about it, it's a bit like an investment company that is optimistic about a certain company, originally intended to hold some stocks, but then slowly hyped itself into a shareholder, the difference between the two is only one active and the other passive.
When Wang Zhengguo heard the news, he was silently happy for Tu Jida in his heart, this is really sleepy, someone will send a pillow, wonderful!
As for whether this Luo Luo company is just using this as a cover to make a big fuss, Wang Zhengguo is more sure that Luo Luo is true this time, and it will not be fake.
One thing to understand is why the upper-plane Grumman company has been optimistic about the Super Seven project, you need to know that Pakistan ended the Sabre-2 research in 87, which means that the project has not started customers.
The real reason is that light fighters are indeed hot at this time, and even Grumman after 89 years has been obsessed with it, and wants to push the United States to officially thaw Super Seven.
And did the super-seven project on the upper plane end after 89? Apparently not, after the Republic ended its cooperation with Grumman, it immediately turned to the Soviet Union to investigate the RD-33 engine, which also included the RB-199 of Rolls-Royce.
In the early nineties, Rolls-Royce immediately proposed that he could invest in the Super Seven project and provide the engine for free for test flights, that is to say, Rolls-Royce's idea of investing in the research and development of the whole machine has actually been in the upper plane, and now it is advanced for various reasons, and there is nothing surprising about it.
"Luo Luo now has a lot of ideas about the approximate plan of 123's Jianqi, as far as their attitude is concerned, I'm afraid that the vinegar jar in the north will really be overturned this time, and there is really a good show to watch. But in any case, now that there is a new progress in the negotiations, it should be our turn to follow-up, and I hope that the talks will be so refreshing at that time. ”
Luo Luo obviously has a first-mover advantage in the J-7 major reform project, but he doesn't know how to deal with the general aspect at that time, and hopes that the competition between the two sides will not be too easy to divide the winner and loser.
Lao Wang has always been more concerned about this Luo Luo Lairen negotiation, and many of the news are exclusive, and the news is broken one after another.
"Our negotiations started the day after tomorrow, and the latest news is that after the British side learned that we were interested in the TF-41, they sent an additional negotiation team to talk about this engine, so you get ready and get to work. ”
It seems that Rollo now attaches great importance to the market of the Republic, so this is very interesting, I don't know what the other party's performance will be like when Wang Zhengguo's conditions are filmed, I am looking forward to it!"
After all, with up to 500 million pounds of funds in hand, Wang Zhengguo's bargaining chips are very sufficient, which is enough for him to continue to tug at Luo Luo, anyway, TF-41 is relatively mature, even if the design is improved in the later stage, and the afterburner is added, the time is enough.
Since there is enough time, I naturally don't mind playing with Rorodo: "What is the situation in Sweden? Volvo should be more enthusiastic about this, after all, the RM-8 is already a previous generation model, and I don't think it will be delayed." ”
Wen Ling listened quietly on the side, what is the situation?
He knew about Rolls-Royce, but he hadn't heard much of what kind of TF-41 engine it was, and the Volvo company, RM-8, was it.........
She felt completely messy, this is the rhythm of stepping on two boats? Why is this guy getting bad now, no, I must figure it out, Uncle Wang is just this one son, I can't watch him become bad.